source: trunk/JavaHelperLib/src/de/ugoe/cs/util/FileTools.java

package de.ugoe.cs.util;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

/**
 * <p>
 * Helper class that provides methods that simplify working with files.
 * </p>
 * 
 * @author Steffen Herbold
 * @version 1.0
 */
public class FileTools {

        /**
         * <p>
         * Private constructor to prevent initializing of the class.
         * </p>
         */
        private FileTools() {

        }

        /**
         * <p>
         * Returns an array of the lines contained in a file. The line separator is
         * {@link StringTools#ENDLINE}.
         * </p>
         * 
         * @param filename
         *            name of the file
         * @return string array, where each line contains a file
         * @throws IOException
         *             see {@link FileReader#read(char[])},
         *             {@link FileReader#close()}
         * @throws FileNotFoundException
         *             see {@link FileReader#FileReader(File)}
         */
        public static String[] getLinesFromFile(String filename)
                        throws IOException, FileNotFoundException {
                boolean carriageReturn = true;
                if( StringTools.ENDLINE.equals("\n") ) {
                        carriageReturn = false;
                }
                return getLinesFromFile(filename, carriageReturn);
        }

        /**
         * <p>
         * Returns an array of the lines contained in a file.
         * </p>
         * 
         * @param filename
         *            name of the file
         * @param carriageReturn
         *            if true, "\r\n", if false "\n" is used as line separator
         * @return string array, where each line contains a file
         * @throws IOException
         *             see {@link FileReader#read(char[])},
         *             {@link FileReader#close()}
         * @throws FileNotFoundException
         *             see {@link FileReader#FileReader(File)}
         */
        public static String[] getLinesFromFile(String filename,
                        boolean carriageReturn) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException {
                File f = new File(filename);
                FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);
                InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(fis,
                                Charset.defaultCharset());
                char[] buffer = new char[(int) f.length()];
                reader.read(buffer);
                reader.close();
                String splitString;
                if (carriageReturn) {
                        splitString = "\r\n";
                } else {
                        splitString = "\n";
                }
                return (new String(buffer)).split(splitString);
        }

}